'RADIO VISION' HAS ARRIVED THANKS TO WASHINGTON SCIENTIST
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On June 14, 1925, The Sunday Star reports that 'radio vision' has arrived 'for the first time in history.'
This "fantastic dream of science" occurred yesterday here in the Nation's Capital when Washington scientist C. Francis Jenkins* demonstrated his new wireless apparatus depicting moving objects from miles away.
The successful demonstration, or test, was seen by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and "other high government officials."
The image of a revolving propeller was transmitted from the Jenkins Laboratory located on Connecticut Avenue and seen by the officials who were "miles away."
The image was described as while not "clean-cut," it was "easily distinguishable."
"Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934) was born in Dayton, Ohio & educated at Bliss Electrical School. CFJ was an engineer & pioneer of early cinema & one of the inventors of television, using mechanical rather than electronic technology. He had over 400 patents for his inventions.
SOURCE
"'Radio Vision' Shown First Time In History by Capital Inventor," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., June 14, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
